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S&P Global Ratings has upgraded Cemex’s credit rating for the second time in 2017.
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S&P Global Ratings has upgraded Cemex’s credit rating for the second time in 2017.

Martin Engineering has announced a new programme in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

LafargeHolcim has officially completed the Ravena cement plant upgrade project in New York, as the local construction sector booms.

Vulcan Materials take-over of Polaris Materials is now in doubt, after receiving a higher bid from an unnamed US building materials company.

Irish building materials giant, CRH, is to buy US cement market, Ash Grove Cement, in a deal worth US$3.5 billion, in the latest in a spate of acquisitions within the sector.

Adverse markets in Brazil, Egypt and Mozambique more than offset positive news from Portugal, Argentina and Paraguay, bringing down Cimpor’s year-on-year volumes in 1H17.

Mark Rock, Senior Vice President of Risk Management at CalPortland, has been awarded this year’s James M. Christie Safety & Health Professional of the year by the US National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association.

Mexican building materials company has been included in the Fortune 2017 Change the World List.

Grupo Argos and its subsidiary, Cementos Argos, have been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2017 as the Industry Global Leader in the materials division.

Rockwell Automation has elected Blake D. Moret as Chairman of the Board.

Ash Grove Cement Co. has promoted J. Randall Vance as President and CEO, assuming the roles from Charles Sunderland, who remains Chairman.

Lehigh Hanson will once again be joining HeidelbergCement’s Quarry Life Award, with four North American quarries.